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Welcome to the home page of the UNESCO initiative on marine spatial planning.

The purpose of this initiative is to help countries operationalize ecosystem-based management by finding space for biodiversity conservation and sustainable economic development in marine environments. One way to do this is through marine spatial planning. Our work focusses on moving marine spatial planning beyond the conceptual level by:

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What is marine spatial planning?

Marine spatial planning is a public process of analyzing and allocating the spatial and temporal distribution of human activities in marine areas to achieve ecological, economic and social objectives that have been specified through a political process.